The Cure - The Drowning Man (BBC Sessions) video free download
Audio Only, The Cure - The Drowning Man BBC Sessions 1979 - 1985.
Session 4 (tracks 1.14 to 1.16)
Richard Skinner Session
Langham, England
1981-02-26
Airdate: 1981-03-02
Smith/Gallup/Tolhurst
She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares
Alone
Across the water
The loneliness grows and slowly
Fills her frozen body
Sliding downwards
One by one her senses die
The memories fade
And leave her eyes
Still seeing worlds that never were
And one by one the bright birds leave her ...
Starting at the violent sound
She tries to turn
But final
Noiseless
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
The water bows
Receives her
And drowns her at its ease
Drowns her at its ease
I would have left the world all bleeding
Could I only help you love
The fleeting shapes
So many years ago
So young and beautiful and brave
Everything was true
It couldn't be a story
I wish it was all true
I wish it couldn't be a story
The words all left me
Lifeless
Hoping
Breathing like the drowning man
Oh Fushia
You leave me
Breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man
Comments
8 years ago
Joël DI DOMIZIO
Was 19 years when "Faith" was released...Was more into 70's music at that time...But I started to listen bands such as "The Cure", "Siouxie and The banshees"...But then, around 84/85, I was discovering the "famous trilogy" (17 Seconds, Faith and Pornography) and I listened those 3 albums all the time...I deeply link these Cure albums to mental depression, drugs abuse, mental confusion as Robert Smith might have been so confused at that time...9 years ago
clairelenoir
"The Drowning Man"She stands twelve feet above the floodShe staresAloneAcross the waterThe loneliness grows and slowly Fills her frozen bodySliding downwardsOne by one her senses die The memories fade And leave her eyesStill seeing worlds that never wereAnd one by one the bright birds leave her ...Starting at the violent soundShe tries to turnBut finalNoiselessSlips and strikes her soft dark headThe water bowsReceives herAnd drowns her at its easeDrowns her at its easeI would have left the world all bleedingCould I only help you loveThe fleeting shapesSo many years agoSo young and beautiful and braveEverything was trueIt couldn't be a storyI wish it was all trueI wish it couldn't be a storyThe words all left meLifelessHopingBreathing like the drowning manOh FushiaYou leave meBreathing like the drowning manBreathing like the drowning man9 years ago
clairelenoir
oh my lord, i am sinking underneath the bridge; beauty kills10 years ago
wertu668
best band ever12 years ago
Crisszilla
@GormenghastLostboy Lol!12 years ago
leshutch74
This song is about nothing more than the effect that the book had on him as he read it and the way he loved a character and the emotional response of her death in the book.......12 years ago
tyler e Henderson
so this song is really about how he felt that she felt slowing inhaling the water know that ever time she tried to scream for help her lungs where being filled with water, her last breath..this is how robert described his pain that night in the pub, he felt like it was he who had drowed and we spent the rest of the hours drinking his sorrows like a drowing man.12 years ago
tyler e Henderson
yes partly taken from the book, but as I recall sitting in a Manchester pub many years ago with robert, this song is based upon a true experience he had with a girl that loved him so much, but could'nt express her love (in words) before he left on tour, severall weeks into the tour he got work that this girl (fushia) that he'd loved beond belief had taken her life late one night after serveral attemps to reach him, she got quite drunk and was swallowed into the timms? river and drowned...12 years ago
SuperPais
@ethankoenig Also my fav , along with Faith. A great influence in choosing to learn and play Bass.12 years ago
Cashane
I'd just like to point out that although the lyrics are obviously inspired by Gormenghast and Fuschia, the name of the song is "The Drowning Man", not "The Drowning Girl".12 years ago
captainortega
@Quentelent As a greek,i can surely tell you that our history is indeed very insteresting,and goes waaay back.12 years ago
captainortega
@Quentelent i dont know if you are reffering to the Greek women back in the greek revolution in 1821. Sounds quite similar13 years ago
Luke Keeno
@Artoveli wow interesting. I read the book a couple of years back, and wasn't all that bothered by it. This song is truly beautiful though13 years ago
Luke Keeno
i love this song!!!! I'd not heard it for years then it just transported me back to be 18 and crying after drinking too much cider and feeling that my heart would break beautiful song13 years ago
Art Dekko
My favourite song too...I often wonder if listening to too much Cure is healthy...but I just cant help it....13 years ago
MowgliX
Wow, just wow!!!!!!13 years ago
mortuus gitte
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nur geil ..i love robert13 years ago
chrisocony .
What's really notable here is that Robert Smith read a book of fiction and then wrote this song. A piece of literature had such an impact or at least appeared to have such an impact that he was able to create such a powerful song, mourning and longing for the tragically dead Fuchsia! Art creates art!13 years ago
leon scheuer
one by one my senses are dying13 years ago
1000sachenmuell
@ajittffcure if it is possible try the live version of hamburg 2002. i don't know why exactly but it creates such dynamics that by far seem divine.Related Videos
